Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

Okay.  Well as I said I only have a vague idea of the real workings of 
OSGi.  I've just read a few articles about it and scanned a few specs in 
order to try and grasp the general idea and goals.

So, I guess one place to start is to talk about tooling a bit.  I know 
that Eclipse's PDE feature has a lot of OSGi capabilities, and while all 
the current devs use Eclipse that hasn't always been true in the past 
and I don't want to require it for the future.

What other tooling would you recommend?  We'd need something that didn't 
come with a lot of overhead or else it's just not going to be worth the 
trouble from a project perspective. In particular I'm very concerned 
about management of the exported APIs list in the manifest.  I have no 
interest in trying to maintain that manually.

On 11/19/10 11:20 AM, Jonathan Tellier wrote:
> Sure, I'd be glad to help you out. I'm far from an OSGI expert, but I
> could provide some assistance.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Chad La 
> Joie<>
>   wrote:
> > Hey Jonathan,
> >
> > I don't know a great deal about OSGi but I have been looking in to it
> > because I believe it would help with the issue of delineating between our
> > public APIs that devs should feel free to use use and the private ones they
> > shouldn't be using.
> >
> > In the next major version of our projects (IdP, OpenSAML, Centralized DS,
> > Metadata Aggregator) I'm beginning to split apart the code bases in to
> > various JARs; breaking them up in to functional modules and splitting apart
> > the public code from the private/internal code.  If you are interested in
> > helping make sure that that code is bundled appropriately for OSGi
> > containers you're definitely welcome to help out.  It won't help you with
> > the current major versions but will help you out in the future.
> >
> > On 11/18/10 9:05 AM, Jonathan Tellier wrote:
> > > Hello there,
> > >
> > > In one of the projects I'm working on, I'm having to repackage the
> > > Shibboleth IdP into OSGI bundles. I've been working on this for a
> > > while and finally have a working prototype. I've put everything on
> > > gitorious, so if you are interested, feel free to visit the project
> > > page at http://gitorious.org/shibboleth-idp-osgi.
> > >
> > > Now, beware that it's in a very early stage. It's barely working, it's
> > > really rough and there's still a lot to do. I'll continue my work on
> > > this until it's more usable, but meanwhile if you have comments,
> > > questions about how to use it (the doc is still lacking) or anything,
> > > feel free to contact me.
> > >
> > > Jonathan
> >
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> > Chad La Joie
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